I cannot wait to read this! Please post as soon as you can find it. But I'll also look when I get home. Maybe they've been asked to remove all trace.

Doubt it. It's all over Youtube.

To sum it up, basically the government has stepped in and mandated a 65 ft radius zone around boons, ships working on boons, and the oil platform. Any reporters, photographers, or news personnel caught inside that zone will be charged with a felony and stamped with a 40k fine. CNN says this stops them from getting to oil soaked wildlife, oily boons that have been sitting forever, and overall disaster cleanup.

65 ft may not sound like a lot but CNN says the Coast Guard originally wanted 300 ft.

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Doubt it. It's all over Youtube. To sum it up, basically the government has stepped in and mandated a 65 ft radius zone around boons, ships working on boons, and the oil platform. Any reporters, photographers, or news personnel caught inside that zone will be charged with a felony and stamped with a 40k fine. CNN says this stops them from getting to oil soaked wildlife, oily boons that have been sitting forever, and overall disaster cleanup.

65 ft may not sound like a lot but CNN says the Coast Guard originally wanted 300 ft.

I haven't seen a picture of the oil gushing out lately. I wonder if they've put a stop to that too.

I haven't seen a picture of the oil gushing out lately. I wonder if they've put a stop to that too.

nah they had it on HLN yesterday. Who knows, it could have been previously recorded footage. My personal thinking is that video footage they're sending us is oil leaking in a huge water tank like at seaworld haha. And they just keep filming it.

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nah they had it on HLN yesterday. Who knows, it could have been previously recorded footage. My personal thinking is that video footage they're sending us is oil leaking in a huge water tank like at seaworld haha. And they just keep filming it.

Wow, that's a possibility too! And there's no way to verify since you can't get close. Where is James Cameron when you need him? He had the tiny submarine that dropped down to the Titanic and filmed all that cool footage of the wreckage..

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NEW ORLEANS - The Captains of the Port for Morgan City, La., New Orleans, La., and Mobile, Ala. , under the authority of the Ports and Waterways Safety Act, has established a 20- meter safety zone surrounding all Deepwater Horizon booming operations and oil response efforts taking place in Southeast Louisiana.

Vessels must not come within 20 meters of booming operations, boom, or oil spill response operations under penalty of law.

The safety zone has been put in place to protect members of the response effort, the installation and maintenance of oil containment boom, the operation of response equipment and protection of the environment by limiting access to and through deployed protective boom.

In areas where vessels operators cannot avoid the 20-meter rule, they are required to be cautious of boom and boom operations by transiting at a safe speed and distance.

Violation of a safety zone can result in up to a $40,000 civil penalty. Willful violations may result in a class D felony.

Permission to enter any safety zone must be granted by the Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New Orleans by calling 504-846-5923.